Other offenses in the puzzle riled for different reasons, which Rebecca Falcon, a 30-year-old crossword constructor, enumerated at length on Twitter. It used PATERNO without acknowledging that the ...

Crossword constructors volunteer their time to help underrepresented populations get published. By Deb Amlen One not-so-well-kept secret on the puzzle-making side of the business is that your favorite ...

Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. There are two types: Riddler Express for those of you who want ...

Now, let's delve into solving the Make less difficult crossword clue, featured as 57 Down in the USA Today Crossword on ...

This past December, I threw a party to celebrate a major milestone in my life: the 1,000th day of my New York Times crossword-solving streak. My friends, none of them fellow cruciverbalists, poured in ...

If Michael Whyte could create crossword puzzles as a profession, it’d be a no-brainer for him. However, he acknowledges that wouldn’t be feasible in today’s world, where printed puzzles are a fading ...

Two men who have ties to Guam created a crossword puzzle in the island's shape in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Ferdinand Magellan's landing. Jim Peredo and Alex Eaton-Salners worked ...